Hunting for Planet 9
Dr. Sarah Casewell describes the hunt for the mysterious Planet 9 in this blog post for the National Space Centre, and how a citizen science project called Backyard Worlds lets anyone join the search. Is there a large planet lurking at the fringes of our Solar System awaiting discovery? Ever since Pluto’s discovery in 1930 […]
Announcing the 2019 Yearbook
The last twelve months have been an incredibly busy period for the School of Physics and Astronomy, and we have been collecting all our stories and achievements together into an online news blog. Just before Christmas, the Leicester Physics News Team (LPNT) collated this into our first ever Yearbook. When we pull everything together in this […]
Leicester Physicists at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019
At the beginning of December, members from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy made their way to San Francisco, USA to present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019, writes Harneet Sangha. The meeting had over 25,000 attendees, a handful of which were from the University of Leicester. This enormous conference […]
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